Jurgen Gaeremyn
Long term open source advocate, board member of the Digital Freedom Foundation, founder of the BeLibre movement.
BeLibre
Having started the BeLibre movement in March of 2025, engagement has quickly grown. Why I started this project? Because Belgium currently doesn’t have active networking communities and groups that can voice the interest of the citizen.
Digital Freedom Foundation
Having organized Software Freedom Day since 2011, this event holds a dear place in my heart. Celebrating the merits of Software Freedom and how it has impacted my as an individual and society as a whole, runs are a red line through my life. When the movement was looking for new board members in 2023, I decided to step up and play a role in the Digital Freedom Foundation coordinating this event and similar other ones (Document Freedom Day and Hardware Freedom Day).
Hackerspace Brussels
It was a rainy evening in the spring of 2010, when I walked into the first location of Hackerspace Brussels: merely more than the livingroom of a dedicated hacker. Fifteen years later, the hackerspace has grown to become my nerdy second homebase.
Personal interestes
Like every father, I naturally grow an interest in the interests of my kids. Consequently you can see my interest for everythings related to horses, and in classical music and composing music, I’m especially fond of related FOSS or open projects like musescore and Openstreetmap, which actually supports horse back riding.
Articles
- Digisprong is looking for partners for an open source procurement in Flemish education 2026-04-15
- A Belgian tool is quietly running medical imaging worldwide 2026-04-14
- Five years of Digisprong: how the Flemish government quietly built an open digital learning infrastructure and is now shifting into a higher gear 2026-04-13
- What Academia Now Tells Governments About Digital Dependency 2026-04-13
- One year of BeLibre: why digital freedom concerns us all 2026-03-24
- The pigeon that flew back: how Belgium quietly chose open source messaging 2026-03-21
- Press release - March 17, 2026 2026-03-17
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong? When Geopolitics Hits Your Cloud, HR and Bank Account 2026-02-13
- Beyond the Marketing: Measuring Microsoft’s Cloud Sovereignty in Europe 2026-02-07
- Banks and the Digital Divide: Let's Build Solutions Together for Everyone 2025-12-13
- If FIFA can do it, so can we 2025-12-10
- Belgium Can’t Afford Microsoft to Go Down: A Wake-Up Call on Digital Sovereignty 2025-11-25